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RAUNDS, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Thrapstone district, Northampton. The village stands1¾ mile E of the Northampton and Peterborough railway, and 3¾ S of Thrapstone; carries on extensive shoe-making; and has a station on the Midland railway, a post-office‡under Thrapstone, and a temperance hall. The parish comprises 3, 680 acres. Real property, £7,074. Pop. in 1851, 1,870: in 1861, 2, 337. Houses, 511. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of shoe-manufacture. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster and Sir J. Langham, Bart. There is a petrifying spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £18 a year, and charities £44. Grimbald, who built Trinity College chapel in Cambridge, was anative.—The sub-district contains also 11 other parishes, 6 of them electorally in Hunts. Acres, 23, 801. Pop., 6, 606. Houses, 1, 440.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Raunds AP/CP Raunds SubD Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Raunds |
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